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If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
Shel Silverstein
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Shel Silverstein
Age: 66 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 25
Died: 1999
Died: May 10
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Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you... You cannot roll with me, said the Big O, but perhaps you can roll by yourself.
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We're all worth the same When we turn off the light.
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My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.
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And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?
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Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll
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If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
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So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.
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You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
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